Application and Usefulness of Internet of Things in Information Technology

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system ofinterrelated computing devices, mechanical and digitalmachines, objects, animals or people that are provided withunique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over anetwork without requiring human-to-human or human-tocomputerinteraction. It is an ambiguous term, but it is fastbecoming a tangible technology that can be applied in datacenters to collect information on just about anything thatIT wants to control. IoT has evolved from the convergenceof wireless technologies, micro-electromechanical systems(MEMS), microservices and the internet. The convergencehas helped tear down the silo walls between operationaltechnology (OT) and information technology (IT), allowingunstructured machine-generated data to be analyzed forinsights that will drive improvements. The Internet ofThings (IoT) is essentially a system of machines or objectsoutfitted with data-collecting technologies so that thoseobjects can communicate with one another. The machineto-machine(M2M) data that is generated has a wide rangeof uses, but is commonly seen as a way to determine thehealth and status of things -- inanimate or living.